[UK] Alternative side to remembrance
HOT on the heels of honouring heroes on Poppy Day comes a remembrance service with a difference – organised for the city’s transgender community.
The Church of Christ the Cornerstone will host the MK International Transgender Day of Remembrance event next Tuesday evening.
With mayor Catriona Morris as guest of honour, the service will include a two minute silence to remember victims of transphobic attacks.Service to be held for transgender victims

[UK] Big increase in South West gender swap cases
An NHS gender clinic in Devon has seen a six-fold increase in referrals in six years.
The Laurels gender and sexual medicine clinic in Exeter saw 167 new cases last year, about half of whom will be supported to undergo a surgical sex change.

[Canada] Tolerated, but not accepted
This summer Daphne Shaed gave out 300 resumés. She went to 30 interviews. She hoped to land a summer job that suited her skills as a workshop facilitator and Camosun College Student Society Pride director.
Eventually she took the only job she could find working the graveyard shift at a Saanich hotel.
(Photo: Daphne Shaed, a transgender woman and Camosun College pride director, holds a candle in the campus pride office for the Transgender Day of Remembrance this weekend.)

[Canada] Relationship ends in 'frenzied explosion of violence'
A transgender woman in Vancouver has been sentenced to life in prison without parole eligibility for 12 years after pleading guilty to the "savage" murder of her former boyfriend who had left her for another woman.

[Canada] They want to transform your perspective
Jack had to pee.
It’s a basic human function. There’s usually no complication. There’s usually no hesitation. One just goes to the washroom and solves the problem.
But things weren’t so simple for Jack.
Jack O’Donnell* was a 15-yearold student who identified as a trans male, yet his peers and teachers saw him as a woman and he wasn’t allowed to enter the men’s washroom.

[Canada] Transgendered student denied access to men’s washroom
When James Spencer switched schools to avoid bullies the last place he thought he’d run into them again was at the main office.
But that’s exactly what Spencer, a 16-year-old who transitioned from female to male, says happened when Clarke High School in Durham Region barred him from using the men’s washroom.

[CA, USA] A Long Road for LGBT Youth
Mia Tu Mutch, 22, identifies as transgender and prefers female pronouns. She’s served as a member of the San Francisco Youth Commission for a year and a half. Advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights are more than just politics, it’s necessary for her own survival. Mutch was refused health care access, she said, after service providers discovered she is transgender. She is not alone.

[MD, USA] Bethesda Transgender Day or Remembrance
Over the last decade more than one person a month has died due to anti-transgender biased prejudice. We call on our community to stand with us to remember those whose lives have been taken due to hatred and prejudice and join together in hope for a future of peace and justice.